West Bend — For the first time since it decided to change its name several years ago, the Museum of Wisconsin Art seems like an actual museum.

Although it has been researching and refining the story of art in our state for more than 20 years, the otherwise modest-sized, regional museum has not had the square footage or museum-quality space to showcase the breadth of its collection. | April 5, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(19)

Rock the Green, an eco-friendly music festival, has been canceled for the second year in a row.

Rock the Green, a nonprofit that aims to promote sustainable-living strategies, had scheduled the festival for Sept. 13. Its music festivals in 2011 and 2012 exemplified running a "green" event, featuring organized recycling, local farm-to-fork food vendors and biodiesel generators as a source of power. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

Four hopeful writers each fork over five grand so they can sit in an Upper West Side apartment for 10 weeks, learning the mysteries of their craft from a writing guru. Been there, done that — through a shelf's worth of campus novels and plays featuring sex and sadism.

But don't ever bet against playwright Theresa Rebeck, who deploys this setup in "Seminar," now receiving its Milwaukee premiere in a production by The World's Stage Theatre Company that opened Thursday night under David Bohn's direction. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

The lucrative fall album release calendar is still taking shape; Nicki Minaj and Garth Brooks are expected to drop major releases this season, but no dates have been set yet, while rumors persist regarding new albums from U2 and others. But here are five titles confirmed for autumn to listen for, from the expected bestseller of the year to a national release from one of Milwaukee's finest acts.

1. "1989," Taylor Swift (Oct. 27): Having become one of the biggest stars in American music, Swift has her sights set on world domination with her first straight-up pop record, inspired by the sound of the late '80s. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

The warm weather months, alas, are coming to an end. But the season can live on just a little bit longer at some of this fall's most anticipated Milwaukee concerts. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article(2)

If The Tabloids Are True What Are You? By Matthea Harvey. Graywolf Press. 160 pages. $25.

"I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it," Matthea Harvey told Verse Wisconsin's Wendy Vardaman in a 2010 interview. "Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language."

Be prepared, then, to spend a little time with "If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?" (Graywolf), Harvey's entertaining, whimsical and often challenging new collection, which pairs her poetry with her own photos, silhouettes and other images. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

"Lock In" imagines a future world where a viral plague has left five million people locked in their bodies, unable to move or respond to stimuli. Through neural surgery, however, these locked-in victims of Haden syndrome can project their consciousness into threeps — android-type bodies — and move and work in the public world. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

The Best of Brew City is your mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee. Locate events, live music, bars and restaurants near you and in Milwaukee's most popular neighborhoods. Visitbestofbrewcity.com and download the app for iOS or Android today.

The Polish Moon Ride and Block Party starts at 6 p.m. Friday in the shadow of one of Milwaukee's greatest symbols: the Rockwell Clock Tower, 1201 S. 2nd St., long known as the "Polish Moon" because it rose over one of Milwaukee's historically Polish neighborhoods. Before the 11-mile bike ride there'll be food and live music. The ride starts at 8 p.m. at Anodyne Coffee, 224 W. Bruce St., and travels through the neighborhood, which has added Latino flavors to its Polish roots. The cost for the ride is $35; $25 for neighborhood residents and Wisconsin Bike Federation members. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article

The sauce beneath grilled baby octopus gets its depth from tomatoes roasted in a wood-burning oven.

One of these days, I'm going to linger on one of the cushy couches in Salotto Zarletti's bar with a glass of wine.

Lately, though, I've just wanted to head directly to the table at the Mequon restaurant, the newest of restaurateur Brian Zarletti's places. The food coming from chef Andrew Miller's kitchen is delicious. | Aug. 22, 2014»Read Full Article